There’s Already Been a Gay ‘Bachelor’-Type Show, and It Was Esrted Off Air After Jt One Season

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• THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON
• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT
• BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• ‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE
• HOW MANY GUYS ARE GAY ON THE BACHELORETTE? ANDI SPILLS! PL, THERE MIGHT BE A "HARRY" SPOFF (NO, REALLY)
• GAY BACHELOR TV SHOW HAS NASTY SURPRISE
• THERE’S A BIG GAY FD ON THIS SEASON OF ‘THE BACHELORETTE’ – WATCH
• THE BACHELORETTE SKS EVEN LOWER WH AN OFFENSIVE GAY STORYLE
• THE BACHELORETTE’S FAKE GAY RELATNSHIP IS WHY MEN CAN’T BE FRIENDS

THERE’S ALREADY BEEN A GAY ‘BACHELOR’-TYPE SHOW, AND IT WAS ESRTED OFF AIR AFTER JT ONE SEASON

Colton Unrwood beme the first openly gay man Bachelor Natn April 2021. It was dropped that April 2021, Unrwood me out as gay durg an terview on "Good Morng Ameri.

"This mak him the first former lead to be part of the LGBTQ muny, and the first gay male volved wh the show.

In realy, there’s already been a gay “Bachelor”-type show — “Fdg Prce Charmg. ”Thirteen gay men moved to a mansn to try to w the affectns of a handsome eligible bachelor, terr signer Robert Sepuvelda Jr.

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

Former ‘NSYNCer Lance Bass played the Chris Harrison-que Read: Billy Eichner to Colton Unrwood 2019: 'Maybe You're the First Gay Bachelor and We Don't Even Know' (Vio)In the end, Sepulveda chose hairstylist Eric Leonardos as his guy. “Fdg Prce Charmg” was not whout ntroversy, though, but not for s gay filmg and jt prr to s premiere, reports emerged that Sepulveda had prevly been a sex worker.

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COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri.

BACHELOR'S COLTON UNRWOOD TO RETURN TO REALY TV AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

“‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal.

“He’d pulled up the history of recent Google search, which clud gay porn s and a variety of qutns: ‘Am I gay?

‘THE BACHELOR’ HAS A TROUBLED HISTORY WHEN TO GAY ROMANCE. IT’S NOT ALONE

“I’ll jt say , ” Unrwood reveals on a recent afternoon, still adjtg to his new life as an openly gay man. Acrdg to him, last year, while livg Los Angel, he secretly vised a spa known for terg to gay clientele.

At one time, g out of the closet was emed a reer killer, but shows like “The Real World, ” “Survivor” and the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, ” now rebooted on Netflix, led to a profound, posive transformatn how gay people are perceived, and helped brg about progrsive chang to LGBTQ civil rights. As new generatns of lennials and Gen Zers have grown up wh LGBTQ iends and role mols, gay Amerins have attaed the right to marry, and queerns has bee more mastream media, as proven shows like HBO’s high school h “Euphoria” and sentially half of the characters the Ryan Murphy universe.

HOW MANY GUYS ARE GAY ON THE BACHELORETTE? ANDI SPILLS! PL, THERE MIGHT BE A "HARRY" SPOFF (NO, REALLY)

His announcement that he was gay cid wh news that he was filmg a Netflix realy show about his new life. And others legimately argued that as a hunky whe gay man, he was benefg om privilege, takg a platform that other members of the queer muny served more than he did.

GAY BACHELOR TV SHOW HAS NASTY SURPRISE

“I had never seen a football player that had ma to the NFL that had been gay, growg up Catholic. “I’ve had hundreds of gay Christian men and women who are nfed their walk wh J say, ‘I felt closer to God when I me out.

THERE’S A BIG GAY FD ON THIS SEASON OF ‘THE BACHELORETTE’ – WATCH

“I never want people to thk that I’m g out to change the narrative, or to bsh over and not take rponsibily for my actns, and now that I have this gay life that I don’t have to addrs my past as a straight man, ” Unrwood says.

Cled to ment for this story, or answer qutns about whether there have been discsns about velopg a gay season of “The Bachelor. Realy TV has the power to change mds, showsg unrreprented muni to sectns of the untry who might not e across gay, bisexual or transgenr people their everyday liv. The number of high-profile gay love stori at the movi — among them, the Hulu romantic edy “Happit Season” and 2017 Sundance darlg “Call Me by Your Name” — remas small.

THE BACHELORETTE SKS EVEN LOWER WH AN OFFENSIVE GAY STORYLE

It’s rare to see a full-fledged gay love story, or hts of gay romance, on a realy TV show. When Lance Bass, who is openly gay, appeared on the program 2008, he was paired wh a female partner. For Unrwood, growg up Washgton, Ill., wh a populatn of 15, 000, there were no gay role mols.

Though he felt that he was different at the age of 6, Unrwood never got the chance to teract wh gay people. “I would have done anythg to see a gay football player, ” he says, gettg choked up. He ed a iend’s Blockbter rd to rent the movie, so that no one his fay would spect him of beg gay.

THE BACHELORETTE’S FAKE GAY RELATNSHIP IS WHY MEN CAN’T BE FRIENDS

“Gay porn was sort of what I gravated towards, ” Unrwood adms, clenchg his jaw. He remembers that when Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player drafted by the NFL 2014, no one the locker room supported the ia.

“Growg up sports, I was tght that gay is wrong and gay is bad and football players are not gay, ” Unrwood says.